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Way Out Yonder
Although Andy Irvine has been an integral part of three of Irish music's most innovative bands--Sweeney's Men in the 1960s, Planxty in the 1970s, and Patrick Street in the 1990s--he has released very little music under his own name, and consequently is not as well know as he deserves to be. The music of Irvine's bands tended to be fairly evenly split between songs and dance tunes, but on Way out Yonder, only the third solo release in his long career, seven of the nine tracks are songs. Irvine is a very expressive singer who can take a ballad like Loreena McKennitt's version of "The Highwayman" and make its nine-minute length seem too short. The other songs include originals like "Gladiators," a ballad about union organizer Tom Barker, and old ballads such as "Moreton Bay," an Australian convict song. In the late 1960s, Irvine spent two years busking in the Balkans, and the title track is a medley of some of the dance tunes he learned while he was there. Way Out Yonder is a wonderful collection of songs from one of Irish music's secret heroes. --Michael Simmons
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Tracks| 1 | Gladiators | | 2 | Moreton Bay | | 3 | They'll Never Believe It's True/Froggy's Jig | | 4 | Girl I Left Behind | | 5 | Way Out Yonder | | 6 | Highwayman | | 7 | When the Boys Are On Parade | | 8 | On a Distant Shore | | 9 | Born in Carrickfergus |
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